From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267E41387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79473E095C; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f172.google.com (mail-lb0-f172.google.com [209.85.217.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F2BEE0922 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f172.google.com with SMTP id n15so903255lbi.31 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:49:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=H+75a3zc0Vh02lylZ4W3EVKBCc0YlQgcpVLljtxgU2M=; b=g2/p1FqchFPlUULD/4JpwEIIZyQPd8J+XgdQ1H/cEL3ECsFKkFppSMEnK33SPFdDR0 C7Uq8Utk1nXJ8fut9dCoFopsU7LqF/YXjcZp4zZFOC9rx5BSoqyBCsPUFC4pRbO5S/na DRlNAnNhhgKZoOYXdeGXl5nkBfqv5LI91cSJJuN6cD7r5RkfXgTXU1+VR6qyC1gyJnBS RCNwUSm+65UsYVMYxdjplany3gcWmXqpbRtRQX71iTbbIRDbn2Jq0+Mb2JS5dI/LuELJ 9vh8nE97KGSzQ9Yp6hXJ5QcEXSEbuAOw3mnpjiFYG6xemHjDq/HBrPemkPWbpLDkrjhg nH1g== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.121.68 with SMTP id li4mr18606534lab.77.1414356559593; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.51.110 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:49:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:49:19 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels From: Alexander Kapshuk To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9fbfd5c7-e715-4479-835e-446b36b831e1 X-Archives-Hash: f596c33c892b14fe101b9c35dcdc54df On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: >>>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. >>>>>> >>>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative >>>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst so= me >>>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not >>>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage >>>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org. >>>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here mainta= in >>>>>> their alternative kernels. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build = and >>>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install >>>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so. >>>>> >>>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`? >>>> >>>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm >>>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge >>>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only havin= g >>>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess. >>> >>> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So >>> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one. >>> >>> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch >>> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly >>> automatized. >>> >>> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) >>> >>> Regards. >>> -- >>> Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s >>> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias >>> Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico >>> >> >> Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I= use? > > Of course it does. As Alan said, there would not be any reason for it not= to. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias > Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico > Understood. Thanks.